Art Lesson Plans Using "Flickr"
I did a search on “lesson plans,” “Flickr” and “art,” but only came up with a couple using flickr as an online gallery and critique tool. These are great uses for it, actually. Students upload their work into their own Flickr site, then share their best work with the class group. Students can then write about their own pieces and the rest of the class can read this. This can lead into a critique in which students share ideas. Better art, or at least more reflection, grows out of this. In fact, it was just in September of this month that Flickr “announced a new feature they're simply calling "galleries." Using Flickr's galleries option, anyone can assemble a gallery of up to eighteen images. You can arrange galleries around a theme or idea and add your own commentary about the collection. Galleries can be made from images you've uploaded to Flickr or you can use public images found on Flickr” (Byrne, 2009, n.p.). Pretty handy for us art teachers!
Another art teacher pointed out that searching the tags “color wheel” brings up many interesting color wheels (such as the one above) for use in the classroom.
An idea that hit me as a VERY convenient use, is to have art students search through photographs on Flickr to find good examples of the elements and principles of art in the photos. I have done some of this in the past with magazines, but it is not a very efficient way to work. This could be done easily, with students creating “sets” for the concept that he or she is representing. It would be quite easy for the art teacher to see who was “getting it” and who was not as they worked. Or it could be done as a class project that the teacher views afterward. Good examples could be viewed as a class in a slide show to reinforce the concept before an application activity.
References
Byrne, R. (2009, Jeptember 15). Flickr galleries – Art students curate collections. Blog posted to Free Technology for Teachers: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/09/flickr-galleries-art-students-curate.html
I love the color wheel idea and hadn't put that together, but there are so many color wheels I have seen through these blogs and on Flickr. Also, I strongly believe that when students are putting their work out there for others to see, it greatly raises the bar. Fantastic post.
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